The story of a theater company and the many actors and musicians connected to it.

Keith Dewhust wrote eight of the plays produced by the Cottesloe Company, including Lark Rise to Candleford.
Jack Shepherd, a leading actor of his generation, was one of the founding actors of the Cottesloe Company as well as being a playwright. In 2005 his play Man Falling Down: A Mask Play was staged at the Globe Theatre, London.

Foreword : impossible plays
Introduction : a theatrical ideal
At the Royal Court
The French connection	p. 3
A Royal Court Actor	p. 9
The Royal Court studio	p. 9
A word on the acting	p. 11
Transforming the space	p. 15
Bill Bryden	p. 17
The Greenock dreamer	p. 17
The journey of the fifth horse	p. 22
A vision of the future	p. 24
Pirate black	p. 26
Staging Pirates	p. 26
The actors	p. 31
Victor Henry : the company member who never was	p. 33
The Baby Elephant	p. 40
Corruna!	p. 43
Writing for a company	p. 43
Why 'impossible'?	p. 47
The flower path	p. 48
The alienation effect	p. 49
Corruna! on tour	p. 52
The mysteries of the wrestlers' hotel	p. 53
A Corruna! summary	p. 55
The Royal Court : publicity and personalities	p. 57
Tony Richardson : 'can no one clear the peacock shit off this terrace?'	p. 61
Scotland
Willie Rough	p. 65
The Misanthrope	p. 67
Life at the lyceum	p. 69
The acting company	p. 69
Kidnapped	p. 70
The integrity of the space	p. 72
The Miser	p. 76
The Magic Island	p. 77
The national theatre
The early days of the NT	p. 81
Watch It Come Down	p. 81
Social life	p. 83
Il Campiello	p. 85
Medieval Mysteries	p. 89
The Passion	p. 89
Seeing The Passion	p. 91
Impact	p. 93
Judas	p. 93
The poet's revenge	p. 95
The crucifixion play	p. 96
Lark Rise	p. 98
Luggage	p. 98
Lark Rise	p. 98
Writing Lark Rise	p. 102
Casting 'Mrs. Timms'	p. 104
Rehearsing Lark Rise	p. 106
Lessons of Lark Rise	p. 109
American Buffalo	p. 112
Two questions to ponder	p. 112
Playing American Buffalo	p. 112
Dave King	p. 116
The World Turned Upside Down	p. 121
Civil war, mutinies and strikes	p. 121
The epic challenge of the brambles	p. 127
Dispatches	p. 129
Opportunities and Dilemmas	p. 137
The Long Riders	p. 137
Candleford	p. 138
Plans and a dilemma	p. 140
Summer manoeuvres	p. 142
The O'Neill season	p. 144
The sea plays	p. 144
Hughie and Stacey	p. 145
The Iceman Cometh	p. 147
The demon drink	p. 148
J. G. Devlin	p. 152
Derek Newark	p. 152
Extending the cycle	p. 157
Creation	p. 157
A popular success	p. 159
The outdoor performances	p. 160
Sixty crop pruners	p. 161
Men without women	p. 163
Brian Glover	p. 164
Choices and changes	p. 169
Crazy Horse	p. 169
Bill's choice	p. 171
Cologne and Rome	p. 174
Enforced changes	p. 177
Endings	p. 178
Don Quixote	p. 178
A difficult stage	p. 181
Departure	p. 182
A threat to family life	p. 183
A Midsummer Night's Dream	p. 184
Playing the Dream	p. 184
Mechanicals and Princess Margaret	p. 186
A flashback	p. 189
Glengarry Glen Ross	p. 190
Cinderella	p. 194
The Boxing	p. 198
Doomsday	p. 201
Following the score	p. 201
Rehearsal strategies	p. 204
A furious row	p. 205
'Death' takes the stage	p. 206
Reputations
The wrap-up	p. 211
Reputations	p. 213
Something Happier	p. 218
Epilogue : what's the score?	p. 220
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